Best comfort & source Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency”

Want Order Energy Building Products Source Comfort Owners Efficiency Integrated Transactions Energy Efficiency

Author:John Barth

“The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.”

Looks Self Mistake Source Comfort Contemplation Gazing

Book:ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?”

Knows Made Certain Company Boys Source Comfort International Bullets Nickels

Author:Tommy Douglas

“I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.”

Thinking Kind Consciousness Pieces Source Comfort Stones Oblivion Brooks Ripple

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.”

Found Food Source Comfort Forgotten Comforting Comfort Food Crumpets

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.”

Religion Source Comfort Bases Civil Society

Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.”

Helping Faith Found Source Comfort Daily Life Unitarian

Author:Leverett Saltonstall

“To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.”

Ifs Matter Hands Religion Belief Wish Hell Source Comfort Hideous Cowardly Fiery Avengers

Book:Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

“It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.”

“Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.”

“Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about - subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either”

Men Trying Two Book Together Artist Black Subjects Source Fit Comfort Collections Scrap

Author:Hilton Als

“Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.”

Way Wells Has Beens Joy Seeing Son Source Comfort Glory Tragedy Faithful

Author:Matt Hammitt

“For many people, food is a source of comfort, connection, and control.”

People Source Comfort Connections

Author:Tony Robbins

“You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.”

Helping Creative Source Becoming Comfort Connections Organization Active Helping Others Empowering Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Tony Robbins

“The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.”

Has Beens Mother Source Comfort My Family Terror Available Protection Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Wendy C. Ortiz

“I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.”

Way Reading Source Comfort Delight

Author:Junot Diaz

“Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.”

Needs Hours Prayer Simple Source Comfort Trials Persistent Boon Gethsemane

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.”

People Thinking Believe Faith Understanding Religious Fans Expression Source Comfort Conflict Landscape Tension Division Exploits Sowing

Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”

Ability Source Comfort Endless

Author:Richard Yates

“It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.”

World Made Facts Watches Source Comfort Impact Terror Invisible Privileged Impact On The World

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Mean Made Results Source Fool Comfort Reflection Suits My Way Way Of Thinking

Author:Marquis de Sade

“That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.”

People Important Energy Speak Cases Issues Source Comfort Anxiety Reactions Ignorant Clarity Complexity Inability Dependency Important Issues Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.”

Source Comfort Screwed Up

Book:Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving

Source: Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving

“The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.”

Made Night Source Comfort Suicide Calm Passages Suicidal Bad Night

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Stills Joy Millions Source Comfort Agree Ice Beer Weed Marijuana Bud Cannabis Staples Hemp Funny Marijuana Funny Weed Stoners Grapefruit Great Weed

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

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